Pesme - Čarls Bukovski - 1 - 1947-1984 Ovaj izbor je pokušaj da se iz petnaest knjiga izdvoji jedna koja će ubedljivo predstaviti Bukovskog kao pesnika, jer je pisanje pesama za njega bilo ne samo emotivni dnevnik, već način života, najspontaniji izraz njegovog bića. Naslov originala: Selected Poems / Charles Bukowski „Jednom sam snimio kako čltam moje pesme lavu u zoološkom vrtu. Stvarno je zaurlao, kao da ga boli. Svi pesnicl puštaju taj snimak i smeju se kad se napiju... usmrćeni u sporednim ulicama sveta promrzli pod zastavama taoci svojih žena odgajani u mraku za mrak rigamo u zapušene šolje u bednim sobama punim bubašvaba i miševa nije čudo što retko pevamo danju ili u podne ili noću besmisleni ratovi besmislene godine besmislene Ijubavi i pitaju nas: zašto pijete toliko? eto, izgleda da su dani stvoreni da budu straćeni godine i Ijubavi stvorene su da budu straćene ne možemo da plačemo, i to pomaže smejanju - to je kao izbacivanje snova, ideala, otrova. ne tražite od nas da pevamo, smejanje je naša pesma jer sve je samo užasna šala. Isus bolje da se smejao na krstu, to bi okamenilo njegove ubice. sada ima više ubica nego ikad i ja pišem pesme za njih. "put" (1968)
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Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (1994), Screams from the Balcony (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
